Chapter 369: Behind the Loan (12)

Yao Yi carefully recalled the place that Godwald said, and thought: "If the canal is excavated according to this terrain, the terrain is a relatively gentle terrain in the Andes, from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, it is rare to have such a gentle terrain, although the route is more tortuous, twice as long as the current Panama Canal, but its total distance is similar to the Suez Canal If you excavate it, you can also use the original river channel, which can save a lot of money, but the middle two rivers The crossroads are a little high, but that doesn't affect the big picture!"

In Yao Yi's mind, he began to plan the construction of a new canal in Colombia.

The original Panama Canal mainly had several problems, which made Yao Yi feel the necessity of digging a new canal.

This first problem is that the United States has an extremely strong influence on the Panama Canal, although the treaty has been signed, and the Panamanian government has completely recovered the management of the canal, but when the United States signed the treaty, it has obtained all the priority rights and the greatest preferential rights, so on the Panama Canal, it is impossible for ships from other places to be treated the same as American ships, if there are no sanctions, Yao Yi will not have any problems with future ships, but Yao Yi was very clear in his previous life, he was Chinese, and the United States sanctioned the wealthyIf there is a problem in this regard, Yao Yi and the United States have to fight a big war, which Yao Yi does not want to bear, and he is not willing to bear it, and he has a canal in his own 'private' territory, especially if there is a military war in the future, the power of this canal in wartime will be revealed.

The second problem is that the navigable capacity of the Panama Canal is very poor, much worse than the Suez Canal, due to the topography, and the Andes Mountains are just on the coastline of the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, so the navigable capacity of the Panama Canal to lift water step by step greatly restricts the tonnage and navigability of ships, however, this piece of land in Chocó Province of Colombia is a rare flat land on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, full of water and dense primeval forests, if it is well developed, it is not difficult to dig out a super large artificial canal, and the navigable capacity is definitely more than ten times the total navigable capacity of the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal。

The third question is that the canal in its own 'private' territory, they will have the absolute right to speak and priority navigation, you know, Yao Yike is a businessman, as a businessman, there is no absolute control of logistics and transportation, then in the future will be subject to people everywhere, especially subject to some hegemonic countries, at that time, the blow to commerce will be fatal, in order to establish a global logistics network, business network, this hand must be controlled' Only in this way can we not be controlled by others and make our goods flow smoothly around the world.

The fourth problem is that Yao Yi has planned to pocket nearly 18 million square kilometers of land in the Soviet Union, but in this land, there are more than 50 million people, such a large population, if there is no job, it will be a very terrible thing, to dig a canal such a huge project, need a large number of workers, when the time comes, Yao Yi will not have to worry about the work of the employees, for Yao Yi, it is a matter of killing two birds with one stone, anyone is willing to do it.

Yao Yi thought a lot in this short period of ten minutes, Godwald looked at Yao Yi in a daze, and said: "Duke Yao, are you still satisfied with this plot, this is one of the few provinces in South America with fewer people and more land!"

Yao Yi looked at Goldward and said, "Hehe, what you said is right, such a good plot, how can the Colombian government be willing to sell him to me!"

Goldward smiled and said: "Oh, don't you know, now the politicians in South America have become poor one by one, their good times are gone, they have fallen into the middle-income trap, and the subsequent economic growth is weak, so their politicians are just worrying, and now they are doing everything possible to attract investment in order to stimulate their economic development!"

Yao Yi smiled and said: "Well, what you said is not bad, but you know the rules of my 'private' territory!"

Goldwald said: "Of course, you are now famous all over the world, and everyone knows the rules for your acquisition of 'private' land! With administrative power, judicial power, foreign 'handover' power, and military power, it is actually a country, but it is only superficially recognized as the territory of their country, but what these governments want is superficial recognition, so that they can 'surrender' to the people, and at the same time, they can also make full political capital and personal benefits for themselves!"

Yao Yi smiled and said: "It seems that this land is not so simple, the Colombian government will not sell its land so easily, there must be something wrong with this land, and you didn't say it!"

Godwald blinked, thought for a while, and said, "How is it possible, there are no problems here, what I just said is the truth!"

In fact, he didn't tell all the truth, he was afraid that Yao Yi would give up the acquisition of this land when he heard the real inside story, so that he would not be able to earn a lot of referral fees.

This Chocó province is flat and belongs to a typical tropical rainforest climate, which is very suitable for growing opium poppies, just like the Golden Triangle of the Indochina Peninsula, it is a place to hide the world's big drug lords, these big drug lords have their own 'private' people's armed forces, almost instead of the government to manage this place, coupled with the dense primeval forest, it is not easy to send an army to exterminate them, so this province is basically in a state of no government, all kinds of drugs 'trade', arms ') Exchanges and indiscriminate killing of innocents have made this place one of the few hells on earth in the world, and the Colombian government not only invests a lot of money every year. In addition, this place is inhabited by Indians and black slave descendants, who are a race despised by white rule, so this place is a burden that the Colombian government wants to get rid of in their dreams, but throwing off the burden cannot divide the country, otherwise the people will not agree, but land buyers like Yao Yi just cater to the tastes of these politicians, so it is normal for them to find Godhua to match。

Yao Yi has always been concerned about the situation near Panama, and he is naturally also very concerned about his close neighbor Colombia, and in addition, Yao Yi has always wanted to control the important 'traffic' center, this place Yao Yi has considered, otherwise, he would not be so familiar with it.

Yao Yi knew in his heart that it would take a struggle to take this place, especially since some countries would not sit idly by.